John-Paul Clarke is an Associate Professor in the
School of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Air Transportation
Laboratory (ATL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) where
his research and teaching address issues of optimization and robustness in
Aircraft and Airline Operations, Air Traffic Management and the Environmental
Impact of Aviation.

He received his S.B. (1991), S.M. (1992) and Sc.D.
(1997) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a faculty
member at MIT prior to moving to Georgia Tech. He has also been a researcher
at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a visiting scholar at the Boeing
Company.

Dr. Clarke is a member of the Airline Group of the
International Federation of Operations Research Societies (AGIFORS), the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of
Navigation (ION) and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

He serves on several national and international
committees including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of
The National Academies, the FAA Research Engineering and Development
Committee (REDAC), the AIAA Air Transportation Systems Technical Committee
and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aircraft Noise Committee.

Dr. Clarke was the first director of the
Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Research (PARTNER),
the Center of Excellence for Aviation Noise and Aircraft Emissions
Mitigation, and is an active researcher in both PARTNER and the National
Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR).

In 1999, he was awarded the AIAA/AAAE/ACC Jay
Hollingsworth Speas Airport Award and in 2003, he was awarded the FAA
Excellence in Aviation Award.